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The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 101

He tossed his head with delight at the sight of her, and approached slowly to the place where she stood, a little in front of the mirror.

Who acts: dragon, horse · What happens: toss, approach, stand, sight · To what, where: head, place, little, front, horse

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjnmod:possobjcaseoblcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctccconjadvmodcasedetobladvmodnsubjaclpunctdetobl:unmarkedcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctrootHePRONtossedVERBhisPRONheadNOUNwithADPdelightNOUNatADPtheDETsightNOUNofADPherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJapproachedVERBslowlyADVtoADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVshePRONstoodVERB,PUNCTaDETlittleADJinADPfrontNOUNofADPtheDETmirrorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 tossednsubj
2tossedtossVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 headnmod:poss
4headheadNOUNNumber=Sing2 tossedobj
5withwithADP_6 delightcase
6delightdelightNOUNNumber=Sing2 tossedobl
7atatADP_9 sightcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 sightdet
9sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing6 delightnmod
10ofofADP_11 hercase
11hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 sightnmod
12,,PUNCT_14 approachedpunct
13andandCCONJ_14 approachedcc
14approachedapproachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 tossedconj
15slowlyslowlyADV_14 approachedadvmod
16totoADP_18 placecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 placedet
18placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing14 approachedobl
19wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 stoodadvmod
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 stoodnsubj
21stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 placeacl
22,,PUNCT_24 littlepunct
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 littledet
24littlelittleADJDegree=Pos21 stoodobl:unmarked
25ininADP_26 frontcase
26frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing21 stoodobl
27ofofADP_29 mirrorcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 mirrordet
29mirrormirrorNOUNNumber=Sing26 frontnmod
30..PUNCT_2 tossedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tosspastdragondragon's headwith delight at the sight of horsevn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product with delight=Material
2approachpastdragon not said herethe placeslowly propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3standpasthorsea littlefront of the mirrorvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
4sighthorsenom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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